…with home users and small businesses said to be vulnerable to these exploits, there are concerns that these individuals and organisations will remain vulnerable to attacks because the users don’t understand how to secure the devices.Even the NCSC advisory says the very reason attackers select these devices is they’re known to be vulnerable and are often not patched.”Network devices are often easy targets. Once installed, many network devices are not maintained at the same security level as other general-purpose desktops and servers,” said the advisory.It added how few of these devices run antivirus or security tools and that “manufacturers build and distribute these network devices with exploitable services, which are enabled for ease of installation, operation, and maintenance”.The report urges manufacturers not to design products to support legacy or unencrypted protocols and to design the devices so that users are required to change the default passwords before using the device.